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Leaf from a Breviary with decorative “C” initial., Late thirteenth to early fourteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in an angular Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus) script with 18 lines of text. Commences “In vigilia sancti Andree apostolo” and ends, “da nobis in eterna beatitudine de eorum societate gaudere. Per…”. Rubricated in red ink. Smaller initials in red and blue with pen flourishes. Large blue decorative initial “C” enclosing entwined ivy rinceaux on gold ground and enframed by a red field decorated with white filigree. Ivy branches...
Dates:
Late thirteenth to early fourteenth century.
Leaf from an Antiphonal with historiated “A” initial of a female saint preaching, from Italy., Mid-fourteenth century, 1350.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in a Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script on parchment. From north-central Italy, probably in the vicinity of Bologna. Seven four line staves in red (28mm) with square musical notation. Smaller initials in alternating red and blue ink with pen flourishes. Large initial “A” measuring 9.8 x 9cm, illustrating the verse “Adaperiat dominus cor vestrum” (2 Macc. 4: “[God] open your hearts in his law and commandments, and send you peace”), the first...
Dates:
Mid-fourteenth century; 1350.
Single folio on vellum from a Decorative Breviary, from Flanders., Mid-fourteenth century, 1350.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6 bis
Scope and Contents
Description: Decoration: one two-line multicolored initial D on colored grounds with gold highlights and a bar border extending five lines above and below into the lower margin; three multi-line alternating red and blue initials with contrasting pen work, one (on the verso) having a red and blue marginal extension the entire length of the text-block. Also, a drawing representing a dragon, added later. Text: this leaf comes the Christmas season, the end of the service for...
Dates:
Mid-fourteenth century; 1350.
Illuminated leaf from "Les Grandes Chroniques royales" Compostela, Paris, France, 1350-1375
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Description: Decoration: Tempera and gold leaf on parchment (min., 112 x 91 mm.) Text: Includes the opening of Book IV, chapter 1, of the Grandes Chroniques de France, a royal compilation of the history of France from its Trojan origins up to, in its final form with its continuations, the death of King Charles VII in 1461. Originally drafted and updated by the monks of the royal abbey of Saint-Denis, the vernacular text provided the "official" history of the...
Dates:
1350-1375
Bronze seal matrix from England., Fourteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Description: A single matrix cast in bronze. A cast stamp seal matrix with hexagonal-section shaft terminating in a pierced quatrefoil knob. The design features and Agnus Dei with a large flag on an extended Crucifix, surrounded by the legend ECCE AGNVS DEI (‘Behold the Lamb of God’). Slight corrosion below the lamb. Provenance: Found by metal detector in England (undisclosed location), the property of a London collector and by descent. Acquired in...
Dates:
Fourteenth century.
Fragment of a border (9.1) and a cut-out initial “M” (9.2) from a choir book, from Italy., Fourteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9.1 and 9.2
Scope and Contents
Description: 9.1: A fragment of border decoration (20 x 4cm) with blue, tan, and mauve acanthus leaves, gold dots, and an egret-like bird. 9.2: The initial “M” on the verso painted in tan on a blue field and decorated with red, mauve, and blue acanthus leaves was cut from a fourteenth-century Italian choir book on parchment. The recto side of the fragment contains square musical notation written on red staff lines with Gothic text. 9.1 and 9.2 possibly cut from the same...
Dates:
Fourteenth century.
Leaf from a hymnal with musical notation., Fourteenth to fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a high-grade Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus) hand, with square musical notation on red, 4-line staves. Including alternating red, blue, and black capitals with pen flourishes on the black initials. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Formerly folder 1.
Dates:
Fourteenth to fifteenth century.
Initial “E” with Adoration of the Magi taken from a choir book, possibly from Germany., Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Description: The burnished gold initial is set in a red field decorated with gold filigree designs. Vestiges of a green foliate border are evident in the upper and left margins. The interior of the letter is filled with a scene of the Adoration of the Magi. In the lower portion, two magi converse while the third kneels before the Virgin and Child sitting on a red bed. Joseph observes from behind a pillow on the left while two of the kings’ attendants hold a discussion on...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.
Foliate initial “C” from a choir book, from Italy., Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Description: A pink “C” on parchment decorated with white filigree, outlines in red and set against a burnished gold ground. Brilliant blue, green, and pink acanthus sprays emanate from the top and bottom portion of the letter. The tan ground of the initial sets off three luxuriant buds on stalks springing from a clump of varied leaves. Apparently cut from an Italian choir book, probably Lombard. The reverse side contains large gothic script, and square musical notation...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.
Initial “E” with Adoration of the Magi from a choir book, from Northern Italy., Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Description: The letter “E” (116 x 119 mm) is made of thick pink, blue, and green acanthus sprays, while similar foliate decoration, arranged symmetrically, fills the left and bottom margins. The richness of the design, and the form of the curling acanthus is similar to Lombard decoration of the middle of the fifteenth century. This cutting is apparently from a lavishly decorated choir book. Both sides of the fragment contain large gothic script, and square musical...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.